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Back in the old days of computer-based film editing, computers were, famously, less powerful than the mobile phone in your pocket, and yet people were able to edit higher-than-HD-resolution film for international film releases. How was this possible? Before answering that, a brief and simplified technical lesson: read more

General Motors quietly launched a vulnerability submission program that allows security researchers to submit information about hackable vulnerabilities in GM automobiles ... has created a portal welcoming bug reports from benign hackers.

Remix OS, a new desktop OS based on Android-x86 landed yesterday, but it comes with a pretty nasty EULA that should definitely be read by its users.

This is like the Night of the Living Dead Microsoft's relentless campaign to push Windows 10 onto every PC on the planet knows no bounds: now business desktops will be nagged to upgrade.…

The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 5.6 - a completely Free and Open Source NAC solution for GNU/Linux. This is a major release bringing many new features, enhancements and bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use.

Let's Encrypt is purported to be an easy to implement and use SSL certificate authority. Perhaps the method of verification of an authorized domain controller is not thoroughly vetted.

The Tiny Core developers were happy to announce the release and immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core piCore 7.0 operating system, a special edition of Tiny Core Linux designed for Raspberry Pi single-board computers.

In the Linux desktop world, there is now another viable option for a stable desktop environment, thanks to the Solus Project's Budgie Linux desktop environment.

The Chromium developers are working on a solution that allows users to cast media content to the Chromecast without the need to have the Google Cast extension.

KDE develops Free, Open Source Software. Most of the KDE software uses the Qt library, which is available under compatible free licenses. The continued availability of Qt as Free Software is safeguarded by the KDE Free Qt Foundation, founded in 1998. Recently, the foundation was able to conclude an updated agreement with The Qt Company that extends the scope of the protection and allows a license update.

The GNOME Project, a non-profit organization that delivers the open-source GNOME desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems, announced that they are supporting the work of Software Freedom Conservancy.

An overview and test of some browsers commonly used to replace IE.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Drupal 8 on Ubuntu 15.10 with Apache as web server, MySQL as database backend and how to secure the website with SSL. Drupal is a open-source content management system based on PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal is a scalable and open platform for web content management.

A PlayStation hack should come as no surprise to gamers, not with the PlayStation’s history of lackluster security. Fail0verflow has hacked the PlayStation 3, as well as the Wii and Wii U before. PS4 uses FreeBSD and the browser Webkit, both of which are said to be relatively easy to exploit. The PlayStation’s online network has been prone to security breaches as well, with the latest incident taking place only three days into the new year.

If you're a programmer, you'll find GNU/Linux systems quite powerful and robust. When it comes to areas like visual arts, video, business, or gaming, you'll find some tools with promising potential, but lots of bugs, quirks, and challenges. You can accomplish whatever you need in most cases, but the setup and learning curve may not be as smooth as proprietary options on proprietary systems. read more

Koel is an audio streaming service written in Vue at the client side and Laravel on server side.

In today's open source roundup: A redditor asks if Linux will work well on his gaming laptop. Plus: The best open source games of 2015, and how Linux won without winning.

AT&T will use Canonical's Ubuntu Linux open source operating system in its next-generation network, cloud and enterprise platforms.

If you've ever wondered what Android would look like as a desktop PC OS, then try this for size: Remix OS from China. It's a very rough-around-the-edges build of Android x86–an ongoing port of Google's open-source OS from ARM gadgets to x86 PC's–with some closed-source stuff to create a multi-tasking desktop with moving windows, an application bar, and so on, but with Android's look-and-feel. It tries its best to map keyboard shortcuts and mouse movements to the normally fingertip-driven user interface.

Picademy is a two day series of classes taught by certified Raspberry Pi educators. These classes involve learning all hardware and software aspects of the Raspberry Pi. You will also be learning from some of the brightest minds that make up the Raspberry Pi Foundation.